It's a problem when both people do it. There are better examples of bad rhetoric by democrats.
The democrats are not "MY GUY"- I'm an independent and voted for Republicans, Democrats and even Libertarians last election.
"Bring a knife to a gunfight" is not a violent phrase at all however. It's a idiomatic cliche that expresses a certain concept of entering a negotiation grossly weaker than your opponents.
Wow, you are not being sarcastic. Small businesses with brick & mortar sites and employees pay significant taxes. You are mistaken. Walmart drives these small businesses out of business in part because they go in with a 3% to 6% advantage right off the bat.
Because of radiation issues on mars, older people are acceptable. Being young would get cancer, become infertile, etc. Of course, if they were willing to die a couple decades early, that should be their choice.
Pot is very cheap compared to alcohol for comparative intoxication periods. Who wants to risk illegal pot with the potential for toxic cutting to save a buck or two?
I suppose some do- but the vast majority would happily pay the $1-$2/joint it goes for now.
It's gotten cheaper and cheaper despite the drug war. You could buy a $16 bottle of rum or $10 of pot and get about the same amount of party time.
Plus- legal pot would mean you don't have to smoke it. It's very easy to steep the active parts out to make butter which you can cook with.
Google the fed discount rate of 0% to the banks as free loans to buy treasury bonds with.
Guess who pays the treasury bonds-- YOU.
Whenever you see a vote for bonds, your correct answer is to vote "No". Any bond requires a tax increase to pay for it.
Stop being a tool of the corporations and the corporation owned government.
Now for bonus points, google QE1, QE2 and stock manipulation. The government is giving money to the banks to buy stocks with to artificially hold up stock prices.
Open your eyes. Stop swallowing the propaganda of corporate controlled media.
I think you are aware how grossly mistaken you are now-- just browse the various citations here and elsewhere.
Palin did tweet about targeting opponents in gun language.
Via the tarp and the fed discount window, the government has given trillions to banks (not to mention the march 2010 accounting rule changed that let banks assign imaginary values to non performing home loans).
Open your eyes.
It's not liberal or conservative- democratic or republican.
it's corporations and the wealthy (about 2% of the population) against everyone else (98%). We have the power- we just need to wake up and stop swallowing the corporate controlled media's propaganda (and that includes Fox, CNBC, MSNBC, Talk radio, etc.)
As Reagan said, are you doing better or worse than you were 20 years ago? How about your friends? I have multiple degreed friends without work for close to two years now.
We are giving trillions to the wealthy while tossing people worked hard and who did everything right onto the trash heap.
Yes, but pot should produce cancer at levels similar to smoking 2 cigarettes a day. People do not smoke pot the same way they smoke cigarettes.
Ignoring all the damage that illegal pot is doing to mexico, south america, and even the US in terms of respect for the law, giving billions of dollars to criminal gangs, if we are going to ban pot for cancer deaths we should ban skiing for skiing deaths, skydiving for skydving deaths, etc.
What about when no stupid choices were made and you are unemployed. Is it okay to engage in any kind of entertainment then?
Jobs are a declining commodity- we are losing ground to the tune of about 875,000 people per month dropping off benefits after 99 weeks and still unable to find a job.
Can they do anything to ease their pain or should they just die in silence?
Palin put a crosshairs over the congresswoman's face in a political setting.
The congressman's opponent last time had a rally where they fired M-16's to show how they felt about his opposition.
You really shouldn't mix guns and politics unless you expect something like this to happen. It's just irresponsible. Our leaders (both sides) have become irresponsible. Lots of people are hurting while a tiny wealthy percentage is doing extremely well.
The government is giving Trillions ("T", plural now 2.1) to the wealthy and has tried multiple time to cut about 20 billion in benefits to keep people from falling into absolute poverty.
It's really not the time for Fox and the right wing republicans to be making jokes about shooting people.
Well, having to be mildly vague but it involved Office automation from VB. Something that used to happen automatically stopped working and had to be done manually. This was in the non-virtual environment. Basically VB was using an office function to do something automatically.
The virtualization issues centered around something called XDK (I think?) and some out of date 3rd party unsupported closed source controls. Oh and something about synchronization with handhelds. The handheld library wasn't even supported on win7 any more (not even virtually). It wasn't installable.
The software didn't run correctly when virtualized.
One required security patch disabled a feature of medium importance. There was a risk that any new required security patch might kill the software.
Per microsoft, VB6 was unsupported and they no longer tested it with new patches to see if it was broken or not by the new patches. Any support would require $400,000 ($450k this year, $500k next year).
It wasn't hard for the business to imagine- they had a new directive- use packages (closed or open source okay) over custom software. That allows them to eliminate multiple support positions. Each support position also had to be an expert in both the system rules and VB6 so in several areas, it was coming down to "I sure hope Bob doesn't get hit by a bus or we are screwed".
The software degraded (lost key features) when virtualized under winXP. Also required supporting hardware (external, non-PC device) became extremely expensive. Using the new inexpensive hardware would have required a software change.
1) The languages, special hardware, libraries and controls become unsupported on new hardware. 2) The languages, special hardware, libraries and controls become unsupported on new versions of the operating system. 3) The operating system becomes unsupported. 4) The hardware becomes unsupported.
Example: VB6 program uses bar code scanners.
2004? VB6 unsupported as a language.
2008, VB6 unsupported for security patches (so any required security patch could kill VB6 program)
2009 bar code scanners unsupported (change to optical recognition with new software interface)
2009 VB6 Outlook/Word integration fails.
2010 Hardware and operating systems to support VB6 start becoming unavailable. All are unsupported by vendors.
Cost to redevelop VB6 program-- about 1.6 million dollars.
At some point- basically find a new packaged product (cost $100k + $500k user licensing & support + loss of ability to differentiate business) which provides 80% of functionality of the VB6 program and toss it. Can't be changed to match your business - you must change business to match it.
If multiple people use the same computer- it gets worse.
There is another level where it *requires* that you give it a unique phone mobile number and locks your account until you do. If you put in a number, it sends you a text with an unlocking code.
Fortunately, you can simply create a new account (but good bye farmville, citiville, etc. anything you spent time on to get progress) and point all your friends to your new account. the old account can still be seen but you can't log into it without giving your mobile phone number.
Facebook is so untrustworthy with my personal information and privacy that there is NO WAY IN HELL that I want it to be my SSO provider.
I don't even like the concept of SSO because if ANYONE breaks it, you would be massively screwed all over the place. i want a private signon at my bank, my medical pill companies, my pharmacy, my car company, etc.
They wait for this... 1Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. 2And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. 5No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
6Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth--to every nation, tribe, language and people. 7He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water."
8A second angel followed and said, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries."
9A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, 10he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name." 12This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.
13Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them."
14I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man" with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." 16So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
17Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe." 19The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. 20They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.*
* 1600 stadia is about 180 miles (or 300 kilometers)
To paraphrase heston, "Those grapes are people!"
That is one hell of a lot of blood.
Note the 144k limit-- enforced by a few religions. Kinda ignored by the rest.
And then there is Siffy... a bold new kind of SF ("EsEff") that includes Wrestling, "B" grade CGI monster movies, Ghost Hunting, and perhaps the occasional odd infomercial!
Siffy is Spiffy!
(I do thank Siffy for the many decent to outstanding SF shows it produced before it turned into this weird thing it is today. It's not that SF wasn't profitable-- it just wasn't as profitable as Wrestling and Ghost Hunting Shows.)
1) Do you have a ticket/incident system? How many high/critical defects are reported? You can argue, "We spend 3600 hours a year dealing with these defects- many of which are duplicate reports. " Arguing potential savings is tricky-- how can you prove testing will reduce defects? You need to find a study showing that having a QA department reduces defects to production by "X%". Then you could apply that X% to the 3600 hours and say "We would save 540 hours a year of time and that would cost us $30,000 at $60 per hour"-- so there is your testing budget and a reasonable justification.
2) Have you lost any business? You can argue, "We lost $1 million in revenues (about $100k in profits) because of the lack of testing"
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There are two kinds of testing Regression testing- Did we break something. Using a tool like Mercury, or doing it manually, you restore data, run the test steps (automatically or manually) and then compare the database changes to those made prior to the change. Any changes must be explained by some new feature or change or it is a defect.
QA testing- i.e. hostile testing. Most programmers test "ideal path". Good QA tries to break your code and catches errors before a clueless user catches them.
--- Just remember, perfect is the enemy of good. You shoot for perfection, it will never see production. At my company- after we put in QA, it cost us about 2 weeks on a formerly 1 day process. Add on SOX-- and it went to 4 weeks for a formerly 1 day process. A lot of defects and enhancements no longer made financial sense to make unless they were bundled with others to justify the 4 week overhead. (in the end, they got it up to 47 days to make a 1 line change-- at that point they declared the old software obsolete and paid a huge amount of money to have new software developed (without any change control or SOX until it hit production).
China also regularly reveals that they have a "Manifest Destiny" style superiority complex laid over the top of a massive inferiority complex laid over flat out racism of a degree that would blow most U.S. citizens away.
Unless they start interbreeding with other races in other countries, this could get really ugly during the next century.
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It's a problem when both people do it. There are better examples of bad rhetoric by democrats.
The democrats are not "MY GUY"- I'm an independent and voted for Republicans, Democrats and even Libertarians last election.
"Bring a knife to a gunfight" is not a violent phrase at all however. It's a idiomatic cliche that expresses a certain concept of entering a negotiation grossly weaker than your opponents.
No, most mature businesses run under a 10% profit rate.
Walmart gets 6% more profit because they don't pay taxes that you do.
Your profit rate is 10%. Their profit rate is 16%.
Then they lower prices by 6%.
Your profit if you compete is 4%. If you don't compete you go out of business.
They make a healthy profit. You starve
So shouldn't this be 240,000,000?
Or alternatively, we can accept that fair value of infringed songs is apparently $156.
Deducting the taxes isn't the same thing as not paying them in the first place.
Wow, you are not being sarcastic. Small businesses with brick & mortar sites and employees pay significant taxes. You are mistaken. Walmart drives these small businesses out of business in part because they go in with a 3% to 6% advantage right off the bat.
Are you being sarcastic? They get millions of dollars of tax free status for up to 10 years while their competitors still pay regular taxes.
In many cases as soon as the tax free status clears and they have to pay taxes,they close.
Because of radiation issues on mars, older people are acceptable. Being young would get cancer, become infertile, etc. Of course, if they were willing to die a couple decades early, that should be their choice.
Pot is very cheap compared to alcohol for comparative intoxication periods.
Who wants to risk illegal pot with the potential for toxic cutting to save a buck or two?
I suppose some do- but the vast majority would happily pay the $1-$2/joint it goes for now.
It's gotten cheaper and cheaper despite the drug war. You could buy a $16 bottle of rum or $10 of pot and get about the same amount of party time.
Plus- legal pot would mean you don't have to smoke it. It's very easy to steep the active parts out to make butter which you can cook with.
Probably so-- they are giving it away so fast, it's hard to keep track. :-)
Every dollar they give away is going to require a cut in services, the military, or a tax increase.
POE? 41 acronyms on acronym finder - none seem to match your usage.
Google the fed discount rate of 0% to the banks as free loans to buy treasury bonds with.
Guess who pays the treasury bonds-- YOU.
Whenever you see a vote for bonds, your correct answer is to vote "No". Any bond requires a tax increase to pay for it.
Stop being a tool of the corporations and the corporation owned government.
Now for bonus points, google QE1, QE2 and stock manipulation. The government is giving money to the banks to buy stocks with to artificially hold up stock prices.
Open your eyes. Stop swallowing the propaganda of corporate controlled media.
I think you are aware how grossly mistaken you are now-- just browse the various citations here and elsewhere.
Palin did tweet about targeting opponents in gun language.
Via the tarp and the fed discount window, the government has given trillions to banks (not to mention the march 2010 accounting rule changed that let banks assign imaginary values to non performing home loans).
Open your eyes.
It's not liberal or conservative- democratic or republican.
it's corporations and the wealthy (about 2% of the population) against everyone else (98%). We have the power- we just need to wake up and stop swallowing the corporate controlled media's propaganda (and that includes Fox, CNBC, MSNBC, Talk radio, etc.)
As Reagan said, are you doing better or worse than you were 20 years ago? How about your friends? I have multiple degreed friends without work for close to two years now.
We are giving trillions to the wealthy while tossing people worked hard and who did everything right onto the trash heap.
Yes, but pot should produce cancer at levels similar to smoking 2 cigarettes a day.
People do not smoke pot the same way they smoke cigarettes.
Ignoring all the damage that illegal pot is doing to mexico, south america, and even the US in terms of respect for the law, giving billions of dollars to criminal gangs, if we are going to ban pot for cancer deaths we should ban skiing for skiing deaths, skydiving for skydving deaths, etc.
Clearly you have never dealt with Kudzu.
What about when no stupid choices were made and you are unemployed. Is it okay to engage in any kind of entertainment then?
Jobs are a declining commodity- we are losing ground to the tune of about 875,000 people per month dropping off benefits after 99 weeks and still unable to find a job.
Can they do anything to ease their pain or should they just die in silence?
I'll put it politely.
Palin put a crosshairs over the congresswoman's face in a political setting.
The congressman's opponent last time had a rally where they fired M-16's to show how they felt about his opposition.
You really shouldn't mix guns and politics unless you expect something like this to happen. It's just irresponsible. Our leaders (both sides) have become irresponsible. Lots of people are hurting while a tiny wealthy percentage is doing extremely well.
The government is giving Trillions ("T", plural now 2.1) to the wealthy and has tried multiple time to cut about 20 billion in benefits to keep people from falling into absolute poverty.
It's really not the time for Fox and the right wing republicans to be making jokes about shooting people.
Well, having to be mildly vague but it involved Office automation from VB. Something that used to happen automatically stopped working and had to be done manually. This was in the non-virtual environment. Basically VB was using an office function to do something automatically.
The virtualization issues centered around something called XDK (I think?) and some out of date 3rd party unsupported closed source controls. Oh and something about synchronization with handhelds. The handheld library wasn't even supported on win7 any more (not even virtually). It wasn't installable.
The software didn't run correctly when virtualized.
One required security patch disabled a feature of medium importance. There was a risk that any new required security patch might kill the software.
Per microsoft, VB6 was unsupported and they no longer tested it with new patches to see if it was broken or not by the new patches. Any support would require $400,000 ($450k this year, $500k next year).
It wasn't hard for the business to imagine- they had a new directive- use packages (closed or open source okay) over custom software. That allows them to eliminate multiple support positions. Each support position also had to be an expert in both the system rules and VB6 so in several areas, it was coming down to "I sure hope Bob doesn't get hit by a bus or we are screwed".
The software degraded (lost key features) when virtualized under winXP. Also required supporting hardware (external, non-PC device) became extremely expensive. Using the new inexpensive hardware would have required a software change.
1) The languages, special hardware, libraries and controls become unsupported on new hardware.
2) The languages, special hardware, libraries and controls become unsupported on new versions of the operating system.
3) The operating system becomes unsupported.
4) The hardware becomes unsupported.
Example: VB6 program uses bar code scanners.
2004? VB6 unsupported as a language.
2008, VB6 unsupported for security patches (so any required security patch could kill VB6 program)
2009 bar code scanners unsupported (change to optical recognition with new software interface)
2009 VB6 Outlook/Word integration fails.
2010 Hardware and operating systems to support VB6 start becoming unavailable. All are unsupported by vendors.
Cost to redevelop VB6 program-- about 1.6 million dollars.
At some point- basically find a new packaged product (cost $100k + $500k user licensing & support + loss of ability to differentiate business) which provides 80% of functionality of the VB6 program and toss it. Can't be changed to match your business - you must change business to match it.
If multiple people use the same computer- it gets worse.
There is another level where it *requires* that you give it a unique phone mobile number and locks your account until you do. If you put in a number, it sends you a text with an unlocking code.
Fortunately, you can simply create a new account (but good bye farmville, citiville, etc. anything you spent time on to get progress) and point all your friends to your new account. the old account can still be seen but you can't log into it without giving your mobile phone number.
Facebook is so untrustworthy with my personal information and privacy that there is NO WAY IN HELL that I want it to be my SSO provider.
I don't even like the concept of SSO because if ANYONE breaks it, you would be massively screwed all over the place. i want a private signon at my bank, my medical pill companies, my pharmacy, my car company, etc.
They wait for this...
1Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. 2And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. 5No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
6Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth--to every nation, tribe, language and people. 7He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water."
8A second angel followed and said, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries."
9A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, 10he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name." 12This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.
13Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on."
"Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them."
14I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man" with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." 16So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
17Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe." 19The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. 20They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.*
* 1600 stadia is about 180 miles (or 300 kilometers)
To paraphrase heston, "Those grapes are people!"
That is one hell of a lot of blood.
Note the 144k limit-- enforced by a few religions. Kinda ignored by the rest.
And then there is Siffy... a bold new kind of SF ("EsEff") that includes Wrestling, "B" grade CGI monster movies, Ghost Hunting, and perhaps the occasional odd infomercial!
Siffy is Spiffy!
(I do thank Siffy for the many decent to outstanding SF shows it produced before it turned into this weird thing it is today. It's not that SF wasn't profitable-- it just wasn't as profitable as Wrestling and Ghost Hunting Shows.)
Before hand.
1) Do you have a ticket/incident system? How many high/critical defects are reported?
You can argue, "We spend 3600 hours a year dealing with these defects- many of which are duplicate reports. " Arguing potential savings is tricky-- how can you prove testing will reduce defects? You need to find a study showing that having a QA department reduces defects to production by "X%". Then you could apply that X% to the 3600 hours and say "We would save 540 hours a year of time and that would cost us $30,000 at $60 per hour"-- so there is your testing budget and a reasonable justification.
2) Have you lost any business? You can argue, "We lost $1 million in revenues (about $100k in profits) because of the lack of testing"
---
There are two kinds of testing
Regression testing- Did we break something. Using a tool like Mercury, or doing it manually, you restore data, run the test steps (automatically or manually) and then compare the database changes to those made prior to the change. Any changes must be explained by some new feature or change or it is a defect.
QA testing- i.e. hostile testing. Most programmers test "ideal path". Good QA tries to break your code and catches errors before a clueless user catches them.
---
Just remember, perfect is the enemy of good. You shoot for perfection, it will never see production. At my company- after we put in QA, it cost us about 2 weeks on a formerly 1 day process. Add on SOX-- and it went to 4 weeks for a formerly 1 day process. A lot of defects and enhancements no longer made financial sense to make unless they were bundled with others to justify the 4 week overhead. (in the end, they got it up to 47 days to make a 1 line change-- at that point they declared the old software obsolete and paid a huge amount of money to have new software developed (without any change control or SOX until it hit production).
China also regularly reveals that they have a "Manifest Destiny" style superiority complex laid over the top of a massive inferiority complex laid over flat out racism of a degree that would blow most U.S. citizens away.
Unless they start interbreeding with other races in other countries, this could get really ugly during the next century.